Gaming Life in Japan: Commercial Blast

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Over 75 commercials to help you forget that you're not attending the DKΣ3713 event in Japan.

By John Tanaka

As this article goes live, lucky gamers in Japan are lining up to attend the Square Enix DK&#Array;3713 event. They'll be playing the new Kingdom Hearts games and viewing the latest trailers for Final Fantasy XIII.

For those who were unable to take part due to travel distance or the fact that the event was limited to just a few hundred people, we've assembled this little collection of commercials to keep you busy with something Japanesey. Our hope is that you'll watch these and forget that you're not playing the new Kingdom Hearts games and viewing the latest trailers for Final Fantasy XIII.

Square Enix gave us "lucky gamers in Japan" status for this event, so we'll be reporting back with full coverage after playing the new Kingdom Hearts games and viewing the latest trailers for Final Fantasy XIII. While waiting for details over on the main IGN channels, gather your loved ones in front of your computer screen and view all these spots.

As always, you can download the commercials individually or in one go with these handy ZIP files:

To keep things tidy, we've split the commercials across platform. And to be controversial, we've set it so that the system with the fewest commercials will get stuck with all the "other" commercials -- the spots for iPod, movies, events and so-forth.

To be even more controversial, we've ordered the systems based off ranking in last week's Media Create charts. Which puts the PSP first.